“Build More Livable and Sustainable Communities: Over the longer term, we know that the amount
of fuel we will use is directly related to our land use decisions and development patterns, much of which have been organized around the principle of cheap gasoline. Barack Obama believes that we
must move beyond our simple fixation of investing so many of our transportation dollars in serving
drivers and that we must make more investments that make it easier for us to walk, bicycle and access other transportation alternatives.”

While it is not much, and almost entirely absent from the national debate, at least he gets the connection between land-use, cheap energy, and livability.